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Children of the Dispossessed Far-West Preschoolers 30 Years On, Second Edition
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Book Code: AB4205
ISBN: 1-56750-420-5
ISBN-13: 978-1-56750-420-0
Ablex Publishing
Publication: 5/12/1999
List Price: $131.95 (UK Sterling Price: £75.00)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Paperback
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Series Title: Advances in Applied Developmental Psychology
Series Number: 16
Reviews:
  • ...serves a valuable function for a readership in psychology, education, and community action....an important publication,,,,a book worth reading.
    —Contemporary Psychology APA Review of Books
    April 2002
Description: This work offers a consideration of the nature of intelligence, cultural disadvantage, educational programs for culturally different people. In this longitudinal study, profiles of development and expression of competencies are presented.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Preface to the Revised Edition
  • Introduction.
  • What is Intelligence
  • The Great Debate
  • Deprivation, Disadvantage, or Difference?
  • Early Childhood Education: Success or Failure?
  • Cultural Disadvantage in Australia
  • An Australian Preschool
  • Potential, Competence, and Performance-A Conceptual Framework
  • Questions and Assumptions
  • Principles and Practice
  • The Programs Achievements and Lessons
  • Appendices
  • References
  • Index
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